Adam’s Blog

Not a bad night. Contractions are harder and more frequent. Petosin starts at eight. Baby some time later.

So we’re here and the process is in full effect. Lisa is on the first round if meds that will get her ready for round two. Round two will comence at eight tomorrow morning. And, for the record it does not look fun. But for now it’s good night and see you in the morning.

Yeah, I don’t really know. There are books that tell Lisa what to bring, but not me. But as far as I can figure, here’s the important stuff…

Extra socks.
Actually, an entire change of clothes.
iPhone to keep everyone up to date.
iPhone to keep Adam entertained.
Toothbrush and that kind of stuff.
Nutty bars.
Pop tarts.
Pepperoni rolls.
Lisa and her bag.
Lots of camera gear.

You might have to install some stuff, but here’s a virtual tour of where our baby’s going to be hangoing out.

via. Photosynth

That’s right, I’m going to be a dad.

Tomorrow.

3/9/09.

That is 6 days early and all, but it works out for the best.

Lisa’s doing ok. She’s got some pretty bad swelling in her feet and hands and is actually getting a bit of carpal tunnel in her wrists (all normalish, as much as these things go) but her fluid levels are good and she’s feeling alright otherwise, it’s just time to have this baby.

The baby right now is tipping the scales at around 8 lbs, give or take 14 oz (seriously. That’s some margin of error). He has a good strong heart rate and moves well considering he’s stuck in what is effectively a wet, undersized sleeping bag mad of Lisa.

The only catch is that, indeed, he does not want to come out. Knowing Lisa’s family history, the doctor figures we’re going to have to induce anyways, so it’s better to induce at 8 lbs than 11 lbs and so, here we are.

Schedule wise, we’re going in tonight (Sunday) and the process will start. Sparing details here, tomorrow morning there will be some drugs introduced that will get the show rolling in earnest. Depending on any number of factors the little guy will be arriving sometime Monday afternoon/evening/night/Tuesday morning.

For following the progress, we have options. First and easiest will be online. I Twitter. you can find me at twitter.com/adambartlett . There’s an rss feed for those of you who are down with the tech, but that gets complicated. So for that reason my twitter account will be feeding my facebook account for the next few days. Anything I say there should appear on facebook within a few minutes. If you can handle the lag, it’s a lot easier. I will be using my blog just for longer entries if needed. There is also phone calls and email if you prefer (more after the fact than during, of course), so let me know. I will try and check email/comments between now and then, so if you want in on the list let me know who you are and how you want me to get ahold of you. Please leave numbers/addresses since I might not have all of you memorized.

As for visiting, sorry, but no. Probably. We’d rather tell everyone no and then if Lisa feels up to it invite folks over. If we invite you, congrats, you win. If we don’t invite you to the hospital, it doesn’t mean we don’t like you or we like other people better, it just means we didn’t invite you over. It’s not an infinitely large room and we have to draw arbitrary lines somewhere. Sorry. When we’re home and settled we’ll try and work something out.

Well, that’s all I got. I have to go to church and tell everyone there. This shouldn’t publish until after then, so, I’m kinda sneaky like that. Talk to you all soon. Wish us luck.